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Drove to work in mine yesterday

Looks great Mark

Been making a mess for the last few days. Interior out. Tar boards chipped off. Rust treated and waxoyled. POR15 where to be painted. Back knackered...

KS wrote:Been making a mess for the last few days. Interior out. Tar boards chipped off. Rust treated and waxoyled. POR15 where to be painted. Back knackered...

Can you show us a picture of the knackered back please? (Asking for a friend ...B**tsy)

BILLY BEAN wrote:

KS wrote:Been making a mess for the last few days. Interior out. Tar boards chipped off. Rust treated and waxoyled. POR15 where to be painted. Back knackered...

Can you show us a picture of the knackered back please? (Asking for a friend ...B**tsy)

He has his own private stash of 'special' photos – best to ask him directly.

They are all hidden

Bootsy wrote:They are all hidden

That is not very sporting.

Had some provisions to deliver to one of my daughters so had to make a necessary journey


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Italian Service on the Boxster this afternoon.
Clean forgotten the sound of this car at 6500+
Running smoothly now.

911 tomorrow, but far more easy on the old 140K mile engine....

More sorting minor niggles on 914 – wiring, rustproofing, cursing...

Typical!
Day I have to myself and the sun disappears...

Anyway, cleaned all the garage dust off the glass, checked the tyre pressures and took the 911 to Waitrose for some very fresh V Max into an empty tank. Got there with the red light on and 140 psi engine pressure.
£39 later, drove off at 50 psi at 3K, so all good.
Headed for the local A/B roads to flex the engine and the brakes to ensure all was well.

Certainly everything is 100% OK. What a car this is, even the 915 behaved itself and it is mighty stirring on the road at 5500.

Photoshoot in Bridgnorth, Shropshire. Wanted to go much much further, but the pass-out terminated at 12.30, time for lunch and a repeat of my fav car show Kindigit Customs and lunch.

Car felt it would go to SPA this afternoon.

Steering wheel work to do this afternoon instead.

Went out for a drive in the 911 today - first time in two months.

Tried the lock up for size - hopefully won't get affected by the sea air for just one night!

I managed to break down 3 times today! Took my 3 year old daughter out in 'Daddy's red car' as it needed a fresh tank of fuel.

I had also wanted to check out my work after it had misbehaved a little on my previous trip out. A couple of weeks ago, on a trip to Tesco, I had managed to flood the engine on a hot day (the first time I had ever done this), but it had started and run a little roughly after being left for half an hour. In the garage back at home, I had discovered a Solex float that was filling with fuel, but still floating, and a pair of fouled up plugs, so all 4 were treated to a clean, and I thought I might as well check the valve clearances, float heights and balance the carbs while I was at it. Sooo.

Today, I checked the charging system, which was charging, but only giving me 6.7v, so off with the regulator cap, clean all the points and fiddle with the preload till I had 7.2v above about 2000rpm.

On our trip out today to get fuel, it gave all indications of fouling a plug again, so I turned back home, and began to think about further investigations, only for all the sparks to quit completely! A quick investigation revealed a loose crimp on the 6v feed to the 123 distributor, but as usual, I didn't have a spare with me at that moment, and found myself about 3 miles from home, with a 3 year old ('Has the car broken Daddy?'), and I thought I would just phone my wife, and get a lift home, but... My phone battery was out!!! My phone charging lead which normally lives in the glovebox was absent!!! Fortunately, the petrol station was just 100 yards away, so we headed over there, and borrowed a phone from the nice young chap working there.

10 mins later, wife arrives, and we all go back home. I collect the necessary bits and pieces, and we return to the stricken 356. A new crimp is fitted, and off we go, get a full tank of fuel, and head home. The car still runs rough, and cuts out again half way home!! This time, I look a little further, and find that, amazingly, the bolts holding the coil bracket on have worked loose, and the coil bracket must have been vibrating back and forth when the engine was running, leading to the wire dropping out of the crimp! I had a 10mm spanner with me, so tightened the bolts, checked the connections, and off we went again. This time, it is clearly running on all cylinders, and is back to normal, so I was astonished when, approaching the last set of traffic lights before home, the sparks go missing again! This time I have time to look at the rev counter needle pointing to nothing before we come to a stop (electric tach) so know that something electrical is still amis. Round the back of the car, lid open again for the Nth time today, and this time a different connector to the -ve side of the coil this time seems loose. A brief squeeze, and all is once again well.

I backed it into the garage, and will look at it tomorrow. Since the car went back on the road, it has run faultlessly very nearly all the time, so this is pretty unusual. All the coil connections are going to get soldered properly.

Ralph wrote:Went out for a drive in the 911 today - first time in two months.

Tried the lock up for size - hopefully won't get affected by the sea air for just one night!

I set a new personal record this morning - drove the car for two consecutive days!

The car didn't rust away overnight too.

You’ve got a good looking car there Ralph

Kneeslider... sounds a nightmare but at least easy sorted